Posts Tagged Conference Calling
A Business World Without Planes?
Posted by Andrew Pearce in Opinions on 20th April 2010
Europe remains grounded and conference call usage is up 30%
The UK and most of Europe has been thrown into chaos by a volcano no one had heard of until last Thursday. Eyjafjallajoekull in Iceland has been spewing out dust since it erupted on 15th April. What was initially seen as a small inconvenience for both business and leisure travellers and some peace and quiet for those that live under the flight path, as each day passes and the prospect of flights taking to the air again seeming even further away the UK and Europe are on the brink of a economic disaster.
Whilst the airline industry is estimating losses of $2.8 billion, some business are benefiting from the lock-down; in the last four days, conference call provider, Powwownow has witnessed a 30% increase in registered users and over a 30% increase in usage of both conference calls and web conferencing.
The real cost of air travel
Posted by Powwownowteam in Opinions on 12th November 2009
Here at Powwownow, we don’t mind a bit of honest competition. But recent advertising from the people at Flybe.com seemed a little less than truthful. So we felt we ought to take a little direct action with our own ad, published today in the London Metro.
OK, so it’s a little cheeky of us to take their ad and throw it back at them. But we felt there was something important missing in their claim that face to face meetings – and particularly face-to-face meetings that involve air travel – are ‘better’ than conference calling.
Business innovation and the attack of the Harlequin ladybirds
Posted by Powwownowgreen in Opinions on 23rd October 2009
London is under attack.
As I speak, thousands of airborne invaders fill the capital’s air, buzzing around its parks, crawling into buildings, tangling in people’s hair and generally creating disruption. I speak, of course, about Harmonia Axyridis, aka the Harlequin ladybird – and the latest in a long line of immigrants to threaten our native British fauna and flora. Even Twitter is buzzing with it.
I ♥ start-ups
Posted by Powwownowteam in Opinions on 14th May 2009
Since starting work at Powwownow I have done many a thing around the office (all perfectly above board I might add) but the latest project I have been working on is partnerships and in doing so I have met some really interesting people who work for some really interesting companies.
My favourites are those from start ups (sorry if I am offending anyone I know from the corporate world but these ‘start up’ guys are just a whole lot of fun and have unbeatable levels of passion, which gets me all fuzzy inside)
For the purpose of this article I am going to concentrate on my top 5 start ups that I have worked with who give me the ‘fuzzy’ feeling (aka – they are so passionate that I feel they’re going to burst) you may wonder what the purpose of this is – it gives me content and it’ll give you an insight to the best companies to work with. With people like these, you just won’t go wrong
